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Here's the stock M-body cat. It starts out at a full 2 1/4" and even gets almost all the way to the muffler EXCEPT for the last three inches, which neck down to pea shooter size 1 7/8" to fit the stock M-body muffler. Prices range as low as...
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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This last three inches of the cat pipe is what you lop off. The cat pipe has been fully 2 1/4inch I.D. all the way up to the muffler, NOW it necks down to 1 7/8 inch pea shooter size. Uh uh, cut it off.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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Another shot of one of the restrictions in all later M-body's exhaust systems.
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Weld or get welded the 10 inch extension of full 2 1/4 inch exhaust pipe onto the back of the cat pipe, where you just lopped off the 3 inch long piece where it restricted the pipe down to 1 7/8 inch. This also makes up for the slightly shorter than ...
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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3/8 inch hoses connect from the in-rad cooling loop to 3/8 inch I.D. polymer coated, high copper content Polyarmour steel lines. By the time they rust coal burning electric cars will be long forgotten.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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The 3/8 polymer coated lines are double flared and nut straight onto fittings that adapt the stock 1/8NPT 27 out to the new 3/8 inch lines, at the transmission
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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With a tappered punch or a piece of the new 3/8 inch line you can stretch and coax the stock transmission line clips to accept the bigger 3/8 inch trans lines. The new line snapped into place with a satisfying ting.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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290 hits | 44.29 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
The stock trans line holding strap, at the front of the engine, was even easier to modify and mount the 3/8 inch line with.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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Here is a better pic of that stock clamp out of the car and modified to accept the larger 3/8 inch trans line. Not rocket science and it makes for an almost stock looking install.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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351 hits | 41.25 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
These fittings allow you to screw into the stock transmission supply and return ports and adapt you out to 3/8 inch lines.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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This is the only other stock transmission line clip and it holds both lines as they pass between the motor mouny and the oil pan. The triangles in the middle used to be rectangular. That is all the filing I had to do to get them to accept 3/8 inch li...
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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On older M bodies the rad cooling loop fittings are already 11/32 inch. If you want to get fancy you can move up the 1/32 inch to these 3/8 nipples that screw into our stock 1/8NPT27 threads.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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439 hits | 60.2 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
One more shot of how well they simply clipped into the stock mounting clips.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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I did some clearancing around the base of the front trans fitting, with a sanding roll, but it would have fit without it. A stubby 5/8 inch wrench made install easier.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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Why go to larger 3/8 inch Polyamour lines ? Apart from my 28 year old rusty lines being due, I wanted a 44 percent fluid capacity increase for the lines. They now carry that much more fluid exposed to cooler under car winds
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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I mounted this remote transmission filter in front of the passenger's front tire, on the 86 Fifth Avenue. Plenty of unused real estate there, in the wind stream, and well protected behind the front bumper. The hoses go straight up, over the bumper sh...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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Here's a shot with the spin on filter off the housing. You can just see two of the three bolts that hold the filter housing to the front of the right wheel house(ahead of the passenger's wheel).
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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227 hits | 74.94 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
This shot shows the view from inside the front passenger's side wheelhouse (like you were the front of the tire). There's the three mounting bolts/nuts holding the filter housing, from the back. Hanging just below is the bottom of the filter.
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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the hot transmission fluid is coming to the rad cooling loop from the front most fitting on the trans, to the fitting on the right side (in the pic). We're upside down so it is coming in to the passenger's side rad fitting via the 3/8" polyarmou...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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There's the hose coming from the rad cooling loop, sneaking along under the rad, through the core support (no drilling required, plenty of room). From there it's routed over the bumper shock into the "IN" nipple of the remote filter. The next hose co...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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289 hits | 85.55 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
This hose complete's the circle, coimg out of the other side of the stacked plater cooler, routing through the chin spoiler, then through an existing hole in the lower rad support (I enlarged) and clamping right onto the return line which will take t...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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This pic was shot upside down from under the bumper. By relocating the passenger's side horn over to the driver's side of the center core support, you make enough room for the huge stacked plate transmission cooler (there it is in the right side of t...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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225 hits | 59.39 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
The best transmission cooler in the world won't be very effective if you don't get some wind blowing through it. This stacked plate design (B&M Supercooler knock off) is fully 11" X 7" X 1 1/2" thick. More importantly it's fully centered in the passe...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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210 hits | 79.71 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
This must be the 6th or 7th time I've mounted a trans cooler on an M-body and I'm getting better at it each time. I pride myself in not drilling or self tapping anything on. Instead I use existing bolts on the body to hold the strap steel and sheet m...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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214 hits | 62.69 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
Here's the driver's side top corner of the cooler being supported by a 90 degree bracket "nutted" to a bolt that holds on the hood latch.
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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221 hits | 69.18 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
Here's a better shot, from upside down, looking up from under the bumper at the driver's top bracket of the cooler "nutted" to one of the hood release bolts already there. I just used a 5/16UNC-18 Chrysler fender/body washered nut, worked fine.
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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I'm particularly pleased with the driver's side lower cooler bracket mount. I used one of the body bolts that hold the upright core support and some strap steel bent past 90 degrees (pic doesn't show that) from the Lincoln install (or even a car or t...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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Last mount was the passenger's side lower bracket. I simply twisted strap steel 90 degrees allowing it be bolted to the bottom of one of the plastic headlight buckets using one of the stock bucket bolts. Cooler fully secured in four places, centered ...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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This ! little stud is set into the plastic rad overflow at the factory and from then on it starts to rust solid to the threads of the nut holding it to the rad support. Unless you're very lucky the stud will spin with the frozen nut and you've wrecke...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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257 hits | 49.69 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
This simple 1/4UNC20 bolt and a couple of washers and matching nut are al that's needed to fix the overflow tank stud for good. It's 1 1/4" long if you're wondering.
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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275 hits | 41.37 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
After you've drilled a hole, slightly larger than 1/4", through the center of the "crater" left by the offending stud, you can feed the bolt and washer through the filler neck using the old British Leyland wire trick. Drilling the hole slightly large...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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263 hits | 41.82 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
Using washers on either side of the plastic spreads the bind and probably wouldn't leak (it's not critical anyway as it's not a pressurized tank), but I gooped around the nut, leaving just the final 1/2" of threads exposed.
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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Did I lather the nut and exposed bolt threads in anti-seize ? You betcha ! That overflow tank's nut will never spin on me again ! Why is this important ? Because these are NLA and almost everyone in junkyards has already spun and ruined itself alread...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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These rad and trans fittings will allow you go to larger 3/8" lines to replace the stock(rusted and 28 year old) 5/16" lines. This will increase line volume and delivery by 44%.
(Posted in: Larger trans lines in Polyarmour coated lines)

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Double flaring the trans end (rad end not required) is the easy part. Bending 3/8" lines is a good deal tougher than smaller lines. Best have your Wheaties and employ the tube bender. I own two types.
(Posted in: Larger trans lines in Polyarmour coated lines)

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Took about an hour to replicate the stock line bends in the new 3/8" Polyarmour coated lines. Better to replace the rusted 28 year old trans lines now, at home, dirt cheaply, than out on the road at the hands of some stealership for a fee equal to yo...
(Posted in: Larger trans lines in Polyarmour coated lines)

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374 hits | 58.87 KB | Posted: 5/23/13
Empty out the bonded rubber that holds the steel tube the trans mount bolt passes through.
(Posted in: Urethane transmission mount)

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358 hits | 57.99 KB | Posted: 5/23/13
This is what you no longer need. It's also why your trans bumps around.
(Posted in: Urethane transmission mount)

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This is what goes into the old mount housing, which is planty rigid and plenty strong. The deteriorated rubber is the weak link.
(Posted in: Urethane transmission mount)

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